Quick Definition
a wall
Strong's Definition
a wall (as formative of a house)
Derivation: akin to the base of G5088 (τίκτω);
KJV Usage: wall
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
τεῖχος, τείχους, τό (cf. θιγγάνω; allied with it are English 'dike' and 'ditch'), from Homer down, the Sept. very frequent for ηεξΘδ, 'wall'; the wall round a city, town-wall: Act_9:25; 2Co_11:33; Heb_11:30; Revelation 21:12 , 14 f, 17-19 .
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
τεῖχος teichos 9x
a wall of a city, Act_9:25 ; 2Co_11:33 ; Heb_11:30 ; Rev_21:12 ; Rev_21:14 f., Rev_21:17-19
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
τεῖχος , -ους , τό ,
[in LXX chiefly for H2346 ;]
a wall , esp . that about a town: Act_9:25 , 2Co_11:33 , Heb_11:30 , Rev_21:12-19 †
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
τεῖχος [page 627]
a wall, especially the wall about a city ( Act_9:25 al .) : cf. P Eleph 20 .52 (iii/B.C.) παστοφόριον ἐν Τεντύρει ἐντὸς τείχους , P Ryl II. 127 .13 (A.D. 29) τὸ ἀπὸ βορρᾶ τεῖχος τοῦ οἴκου , BGU III. 929 .1 (ii/iii A.D. ?) μητροπόλεως ἐντὸς τείχους , P Flor I. 50 .4 (A.D. 268) ἐν [τὸς τειχῶν ] κ̣αὶ ἐκτός , and P cf. .36. 80 , Strass I. 9 .8 ( c . A.D. 307 or 352) θεμελίοις καὶ τίχεσιν .
For the dim. τειχίον see CPR I. 232 .14 (ii/iii A.D.) μέ [σο ]υ [ὄν ]τος τειχί [ου , and for the form τειχάριον (not in LS 8 ), see P Ryl II. 125 .7 (A.D. 28 9) κατασπασμὸν τειχαρίων παλαιῶ (ν ), demolition of old walls, and for the verb τειχίζω , see ib. 102 .9 (2 nd half ii/A.D. αὐλ ( ) ἀ [π ]ὸ βο [ρρ ]ᾶ τετειχισμέ (ν ).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
τεῖχος τεῖχος, ος, εος, τό, "a wall", esp. "a wall round a city, town-wall", in sg. and pl., Hom. ; τειχέων κιθῶνες "coats" of walls, i. e. walls one within the other, Hdt. ; τεῖχος ἐλαύνειν, δέμειν Il. , etc.; οἰκοδομεῖν Hdt. ; τ. περιβάλλεσθαι "moenia sibi circumdare", id=Hdt. ; also, τ. περιβάλλεσθαι τὴν πόλιν id=Hdt. ; τ. ῥήξασθαι "to breach" the wall, Il. ; so in Prose, τ. καθαιρεῖν, κατασκάπτειν Hdt. , etc. τὰ μακρὰ τείχη at Athens were lines of wall connecting the city-wall with the harbours, called respectively τὸ βόρειον or Peiraic, and τὸ νότιον or Phaleric wall.— τεῖχος, τείχη differ from τοῖχος, as Lat. murus, moenia from "paries, city-walls" from a "house-wall;" cf. τειχίον. "any fortification, a castle, fort", Hdt. : pl. of "a single fort, fortifications", id=Hdt. "a fortified town", id=Hdt. , Xen. , etc.; so in pl. [Etym: deriv. uncertain]
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
τεῖχος, -ους, τό
[in LXX chiefly for חוֹמָה ;]
a wall, esp. that about a town: Act.9:25, 2Co.11:33, Heb.11:30, Rev.21:12-19 †
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